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New SRI technique to measure atomic motion in rubber across wide time spans
Added: 18 Jun 2024
‘Synchrotron radiation technique’ to help develop tires with “high strength and excellent wear resi…

Michelin, Danone setting up ‘biotech open platform’
Added: 18 Jun 2024
Project partners, also including US startup DMC Biotechnologies, to advance ‘precision fermentation…

German rubber industry calls for ‘realistic economic policies' as European Parliament voted in
Added: 18 Jun 2024
WDK appeals to economic policymakers to replace ‘ideologically dominated’ policies to include all p…

General Science changes scope of Thai expansion to focus on PCR tires
Added: 17 Jun 2024
The €240m project will now produce 10m units of passenger car tires and no truck & bus tires
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ETRMA calls for fair competition for downstream chemicals users
Added: 17 Jun 2024
European tire & rubber association co-signs the CheMI manifesto addressed to new EU legislators

Mutares expands automotive portfolio with Chinese acquisition
Added: 17 Jun 2024
Cikautxo Rubber & Plastic Components (Kunshan) to be integrated into recently formed Amaneos

Klean Industries, L4T join forces to advance waste tire recycling
Added: 17 Jun 2024
Initial efforts to be focused on development of an ELT pyrolysis project in Koriyama, Japan

Freudenberg Sealing’s aftermarket unit expanding ‘heavy-duty' portfolio
Added: 17 Jun 2024
Corteco currently producing radial shaft seals for heavy machinery, planning to add accumulators

Kumho intensifies focus on new energy tires
Added: 15 Jun 2024
Launches new EnnoV tires ‘open up new growth space and brings broad market prospects’

Kraiburg TPE gains 'recycled standard’ cert in Malaysia
Added: 15 Jun 2024
GRS scheme applies “stringent” social and environmental criteria throughout the production process.…

Mesnac to build rubber machinery factories in Vietnam, Cambodia
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Two projects, with total cost of €18m, are to be implemented in less two years

Zeon taking over ownership of elastomers JV with Sumitomo Chemical
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Japanese groups to dissolve the SSBR joint venture by 30 Sept, before it becomes a 'wholly owned' s…

Alfagomma building naval hose production line at Italian military facility
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Group also completes construction of a new hydraulic hose plant in Guaranesia, Brazil

German polymer machinery segment reports strong 2023, but orders slump
Added: 14 Jun 2024
VDMA data points to ‘issue of underutilisation’ as companies complete order backlog

Metso starts up new distribution centre in Chile
Added: 14 Jun 2024
“Modern centre will considerably increase Metso’s capability to deliver equipment, spare and wear p…

Zeon to discontinue 60% of rubber production at Japanese facility
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Remaining 40% of production to focus on ‘highly profitable synthetic rubber groups'

Bridgestone Americas cutting jobs at US farm tire plant
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Tire maker set to dismiss nearly 120 employees in response to 'demand constraints'

Circtec secures waste tire supply with Granuband acquisition
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Dutch tire recycler integrated into Circtec as ‘feedstock subsidiary’ to support Delfzijl ELT pyrol…

Orion taps tire pyrolysis oil at Polish carbon black unit
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Installs “multiple tanks" to pump TPO in furnace black reactors for production of circular grades a…

EU set to impose countervailing duties on Chinese electric cars
Added: 13 Jun 2024
ACEA calls for ‘a robust European industrial strategy’ in face of global competition